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23,100 | <|endoftext|>positive: Preachiness vs. Prose vs. Poetry A poem that says what it means is prose;if it means what it says it's a sermon.Leave the homiletics for the priestsprose for the journalistsand soulful resonancefor the poets.<|endoftext|> |
23,101 | <|endoftext|>faith: God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of God to change the way we live. Like the wise builder who laid the foundation of his house on the rock, we learn to let our knowledge of God change us.<|endoftext|> |
23,102 | <|endoftext|>life: And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.<|endoftext|> |
23,103 | <|endoftext|>books: A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies.<|endoftext|> |
23,104 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you, and some days you cannot even find the woods.<|endoftext|> |
23,105 | <|endoftext|>success: The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -<|endoftext|> |
23,106 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.<|endoftext|> |
23,107 | <|endoftext|>love: Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.<|endoftext|> |
23,108 | <|endoftext|>writing: Spelling Bees are useless and unnecessary competitions. Before Microsoft Word and Google, Spelling Bees had value, but now they are all superflewus.<|endoftext|> |
23,109 | <|endoftext|>truth: The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.<|endoftext|> |
23,110 | <|endoftext|>positive: The amount of time an individual may spend pondering over what his neighbor has and what he does not, is equivalent to the amount of time the individual has lost in becoming an equal to his neighbors.<|endoftext|> |
23,111 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.<|endoftext|> |
23,112 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.<|endoftext|> |
23,113 | <|endoftext|>positive: Office Depot: Taking Care of Business... ...with short breaks, bad management and no job advancement opportunities.<|endoftext|> |
23,114 | <|endoftext|>humor: Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake"hate.<|endoftext|> |
23,115 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.<|endoftext|> |
23,116 | <|endoftext|>success: Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.<|endoftext|> |
23,117 | <|endoftext|>humor: You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it.<|endoftext|> |
23,118 | <|endoftext|>humor: Humor is an antidote to all ills.<|endoftext|> |
23,119 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable<|endoftext|> |
23,120 | <|endoftext|>friendship: Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.<|endoftext|> |
23,121 | <|endoftext|>hope: Hope is a seed that grows inside us from the moment we are born<|endoftext|> |
23,122 | <|endoftext|>knowledge: The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.<|endoftext|> |
23,123 | <|endoftext|>humor: Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.<|endoftext|> |
23,124 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Sometimes questions are more important than answers.<|endoftext|> |
23,125 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: The Unspoken Speaks Volumes Stillness brackets the exchanges between lovers. Itis not the lack of sound, but an encapsulated silenceof resonance. Resonant silences stand like bookends, embracing their thoughts;though formal pleasantries vibrate the air,they are more ritual than communication.The couples true intents are articulated in the unspoken.Two bodies.One soul.<|endoftext|> |
23,126 | <|endoftext|>love: Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.<|endoftext|> |
23,127 | <|endoftext|>love: I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.<|endoftext|> |
23,128 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness<|endoftext|> |
23,129 | <|endoftext|>quotes: Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.<|endoftext|> |
23,130 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.<|endoftext|> |
23,131 | <|endoftext|>romance: If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too.<|endoftext|> |
23,132 | <|endoftext|>love: Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.<|endoftext|> |
23,133 | <|endoftext|>friendship: I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.<|endoftext|> |
23,134 | <|endoftext|>love: The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.<|endoftext|> |
23,135 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: Hope opens the door of opportunity and shines the way to possibilities.<|endoftext|> |
23,136 | <|endoftext|>love: True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.<|endoftext|> |
23,137 | <|endoftext|>love: When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.<|endoftext|> |
23,138 | <|endoftext|>success: The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.<|endoftext|> |
23,139 | <|endoftext|>mind: Off the Hook True story...A cop pulls me over for speeding.He says, "What's the hurry?"I say, "I'm running awayfrom a bad marriage."He laughs and says, "Drive carefully."The officer lets me go.Beyond the practical lesson thatmaking a policeman laugh may get you off the hook,there's a certain poetry here in the unexpected connection ~for what is a poemif not a moment of surpriseworth retelling.<|endoftext|> |
23,140 | <|endoftext|>friendship: Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.<|endoftext|> |
23,141 | <|endoftext|>life: What you get is a living, what you give is a life.<|endoftext|> |
23,142 | <|endoftext|>hope: ...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.<|endoftext|> |
23,143 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.<|endoftext|> |
23,144 | <|endoftext|>writing: Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.<|endoftext|> |
23,145 | <|endoftext|>love: The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.<|endoftext|> |
23,146 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: We are here to enjoy the breathtaking views of life with love.<|endoftext|> |
23,147 | <|endoftext|>relationship: Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.<|endoftext|> |
23,148 | <|endoftext|>life: The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.<|endoftext|> |
23,149 | <|endoftext|>hope: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.<|endoftext|> |
23,150 | <|endoftext|>religion: It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.<|endoftext|> |
23,151 | <|endoftext|>books: Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.<|endoftext|> |
23,152 | <|endoftext|>wisdom: Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen."he continued at a slower pace, "of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64<|endoftext|> |
23,153 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: We all have something redeemable in us, no matter how small."- Laura Armstrong, A Human Element<|endoftext|> |
23,154 | <|endoftext|>happiness: A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.<|endoftext|> |
23,155 | <|endoftext|>life: Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.<|endoftext|> |
23,156 | <|endoftext|>soul: Iowa Haiku "We're not really dull,we are just misunderstood.Weed helps dull the pain.<|endoftext|> |
23,157 | <|endoftext|>death: But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.<|endoftext|> |
23,158 | <|endoftext|>success: Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.<|endoftext|> |
23,159 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.<|endoftext|> |
23,160 | <|endoftext|>truth: No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.<|endoftext|> |
23,161 | <|endoftext|>life: Where there is love there is life.<|endoftext|> |
23,162 | <|endoftext|>success: Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.<|endoftext|> |
23,163 | <|endoftext|>writing: It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.<|endoftext|> |
23,164 | <|endoftext|>books: There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.<|endoftext|> |
23,165 | <|endoftext|>hope: From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.<|endoftext|> |
23,166 | <|endoftext|>books: Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.<|endoftext|> |
23,167 | <|endoftext|>happiness: It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.<|endoftext|> |
23,168 | <|endoftext|>humor: Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.<|endoftext|> |
23,169 | <|endoftext|>mind: Free Will [20w] A bunch of amino acids bumping up together is not the scientific explanation of free will, it's grilling a hamburger.<|endoftext|> |
23,170 | <|endoftext|>success: If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.<|endoftext|> |
23,171 | <|endoftext|>arts: When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.<|endoftext|> |
23,172 | <|endoftext|>life: I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.<|endoftext|> |
23,173 | <|endoftext|>hope: I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.<|endoftext|> |
23,174 | <|endoftext|>life: Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?<|endoftext|> |
23,175 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: Hope springs forever.<|endoftext|> |
23,176 | <|endoftext|>relationship: The going rate for love is going away. And the more you go away, the more expensive it gets.<|endoftext|> |
23,177 | <|endoftext|>poetry: Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state,perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and herewere every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.<|endoftext|> |
23,178 | <|endoftext|>life: The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.<|endoftext|> |
23,179 | <|endoftext|>arts: Fine art is knowledge made visible.<|endoftext|> |
23,180 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.<|endoftext|> |
23,181 | <|endoftext|>life: Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.<|endoftext|> |
23,182 | <|endoftext|>mind: You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.<|endoftext|> |
23,183 | <|endoftext|>relationship: He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.<|endoftext|> |
23,184 | <|endoftext|>science: Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.<|endoftext|> |
23,185 | <|endoftext|>life: Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.<|endoftext|> |
23,186 | <|endoftext|>love: My goal is to be as forgiving as a man with amnesia, but love as if I remember and cherish all the things you do that make me smile.<|endoftext|> |
23,187 | <|endoftext|>hope: No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.<|endoftext|> |
23,188 | <|endoftext|>success: Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.<|endoftext|> |
23,189 | <|endoftext|>education: When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.<|endoftext|> |
23,190 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.<|endoftext|> |
23,191 | <|endoftext|>love: I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.<|endoftext|> |
23,192 | <|endoftext|>happiness: One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.<|endoftext|> |
23,193 | <|endoftext|>love: My love is powdered sunshine. Just add water. (Warning: Do NOT attempt to snort it or distribute as a healthy cocaine substitute.)<|endoftext|> |
23,194 | <|endoftext|>philosophy: Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.<|endoftext|> |
23,195 | <|endoftext|>humor: I mined my mind, and I found no love. My heart is where excavation yields gold, and if you dig me as much as I dig you, we can both get rich.<|endoftext|> |
23,196 | <|endoftext|>humor: You could start a fire with the heat between you two.""You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.<|endoftext|> |
23,197 | <|endoftext|>soul: The Soul selects her own Society.<|endoftext|> |
23,198 | <|endoftext|>inspiration: We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.<|endoftext|> |
23,199 | <|endoftext|>quotes: Just hope. Hope is filled with power.<|endoftext|> |
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